Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for.

I am really much more afraid of those people who have so great a fear of the devil, than I am of the devil himself.

Ah, how true it is that we love ourselves too much and proceed with too much human prudence, that we may not lose an atom of our consideration! Oh, what a great mistake that is! The Saints did not act thus.

It will be as well, I think, to explain these locutions of God, and to describe what the soul feels when it receives them.

We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.

Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.

We are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense.